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LANGUAGE CHANGE (semantic (semantic shift, amelioration, narrowing,…
LANGUAGE CHANGE
phonological
accent levelling
accent strengthening
vowel shift
Estuary English
semantic
semantic shift
amelioration
narrowing
broadening
idiom
repossession
weakening
antithesis
metaphor
political correctness
cliche
lexical
loan words
ephemeral language
affixes
back formation
set phrases and collocations
coinage
compounds
blends
spelling
abbreviation
jargon
grammatical
standardisation
word order
inflections
pronouns
negatives
tenses
sentences
pronunciation
attitudes to language
prescriptive
descriptive
process or decay
causes
social influences
other languages
regularisation